Stacey Dash Declares Only One Thing Can End Today’s Divisive Political Climate

Actress Stacey Dash has been a lightning rod for liberals ever since she publicly endorsed Republican Mitt Romney for president in 2012. Since then, she has become a Fox News contributor and faced scorn for being a “sellout” for not supporting President Obama, something she blames on the climate she believes the president created.

In an interview with Breitbart’s Steve Bannon promoting her new memoir, There Goes My Social Life: From Clueless to Conservative, Dash recalled her feelings leading into the 2008 election.

Dash continued, “Let’s vote for a black president, and if he wins — and he did; he won! And I thought, ‘Praise Jesus! My God, we’re going to have a country that’s united in such a profound way. It’s going to be wonderful.'”

“But what did he do? Instead he divided us more than I’ve ever seen in my lifetime — I think, more than the civil rights movement,” she said.

Dash believes Obama has scapegoated white people, which she says has been harmful not only for race relations, but for the overall mindset of black people.

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“He made it that the white man, the conservatives, do not like you because you’re black. They want to keep you down. You’re never going to get out because white men are not going to let you,” she said.

It is this kind of division that Dash thinks has led to our current political climate of fights breaking out at political rallies and students seeking so-called safe spaces, and she believes it is only going to get worse before it gets better. “It’s going to get very ugly,” she said of the next few months.

But what will make it better? Dash says the answer to that is the election of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

“Trump — when Trump becomes president, and we build a wall, and we finally deal with illegal immigration. We have to deal with it. We’ve been trying to deal with it for years — decades — and we have not. We have to finally deal with it,” she said.